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I'd be more sympathetic to this idea if I hadn't seen the tactic executed repeatedly over the last 10 years to ensure vendor lock-in, which ultimately burns the
by ethbr0 5y ago
I'd be more sympathetic to this idea if I hadn't seen the tactic executed repeatedly over the last 10 years to ensure vendor lock-in, which ultimately burns the end user. And/or requires them to insecurely freeze a portion of their IT infrastructure in time.
And honestly, if your GUI/designer is standardized, then it's trivial to define a stable serialization to and from text anyway.
- z3ncyberpunk 5y agoYou only need to sympathetic because you have let yourself become jaded by your anecdotal experience.
- ethbr0 5y agoIt didn't feel anecdotal when I was the one trying to modernize systems like these in the face of vendor apathy (or active hostility) and business resistance to change, because they had 10+ years of legacy "code" built in these things.
- z3ncyberpunk 5y agoSo every other software project for every business ever? Got it, still anecdotal data